Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Alexandra Loske | The Artist's Palette






Alexandra Loske
The Artist's Palette
Princeton, USA: Princeton University Press, 2024
256 pp., 26.4 x 20.6 cm., hardcover
Edition size unknown


Subtitled The palettes behind the paintings of 50 great artists, this title from October of last year is a  scholarly work that functions equally well as an Artist Book. 

Author Alexandra Loske is an art historian, writer and curator known for her investigations into the history of colour in Western art, print culture and architecture. Her previous books on the subject include The Book of Colour Concepts (2024), A Cultural History of Colour in the Age of Industry (2021) and Colour: A Visual History (2019).

Here palette refers both to the physical object (a wooden board, often with a thumb hole, on which an artist mixes paint colours) and the choice of colours in a given work. 

Artists featured include Paul Cézanne, Helen Frankenthaler, Lucian Freud, Artemisia Gentileschi, Keith Haring, Georgia O’Keeffe, Rembrandt, Egon Schiele, Vincent van Gogh and over forty others. 

The palettes here are uniformly photographed, suggesting a massive undertaking of traveling to various institutions and estates where they reside. 


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